Year 2: 30 didactic classes; 6 process groups; 2 workshops

Intro Series (4-5 classes)‍ ‍

09.15.26 From Listening to Action: Psychopathology and Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalytic Practice All faculty encouraged to come

Readings:

Bass, A. (2024). It takes two to know one: Mutual relations at the heart of therapeutic action. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34(5), 591–609.

09.22.26 Introduction to Self Psychology Part 2: Deficits in Self Structure and the Remobilization of Inborn Developmental Potentials Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1.    Geist, R. A. (2020). Interpretation as carrier of selfobject functions: Catalyzing inborn potential. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15(4), 338–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2020.1791128

2.   Tolpin, M. (2002). Doing psychoanalysis of normal development: Forward edge transferences. In W. J. Coburn (Ed.), Progress in self psychology (Vol. 18, pp. 167–190). The Analytic Press. [1, 2, 3]

Recommended Readings:

1.    Gardner, J. R. (2020). Discussion of Richard Geist’s “Interpretation as carrier of selfobject functions: Catalyzing inborn potential”. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15(4), 348–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2020.1791128 [1, 2]

2.  Stern, S. (2024).Breathing together: Needed relationships and complex selfobjects. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 19(3), 274–285. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2024.2345619

09.29.26 Empathy and Therapeutic Action Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1.     Geist, R. A. (2013). How the empathic process heals: A microprocess perspective. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 8(3), 265–281.

https://doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2013.800357.

2.     Stern, D. N., Sander, L. W., Nahum, J. P., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A. C., Bruschweiler-Stern, N., & Tronick, E. Z. (1998). Non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy: The "something more" than interpretation. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79(5), 903–921.

Recommended Readings:

1.     Geist, R. (2007). Who Are You, Who Am I, and Where Are We Going: Sustained Empathic Immersion in the Opening Phase of Psychoanalytic Treatment. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 2(1), 1–26.https://doi.org/10.2513/s15551024ijpsp0201_1.

2.     Slowiaczek, M. L. (2021). Holding on and Diving in: Reciprocity in a Therapeutic Relationship. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 16(3), 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2021.1928137

10.06.26 Pathological Organizing Principles and Structures of Pathological Accommodation Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1.     Brandchaft, B. (1994). To free the spirit from its cell. In R. D. Stolorow, G. E. Atwood, & B. Brandchaft (Eds.), The intersubjective perspective (pp. 57–76). Jason Aronson. (Reprinted from A. Goldberg (Ed.), "The Widening Scope of Self Psychology," Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1993, pp. 209–230)

2.     Doctors, S. R. (2017). Brandchaft’s Pathological Accommodation—What It Is and What It Isn’t. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 12(1), 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2017.1251184

Recommended Readings:

1.     Zarnegar, G. (2020) Politics, Phantomization and Pathological Cultural Accommodation. Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context 15:244-250

2.     Haber, D. (2019) Accommodating Brandchaft: Theory and Transference in Analytic Training. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 39:344-357